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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This fall is like that of Jericho's walls,1 they fell down flat with a curse annexed, or as Babylons walls, with a Vengeance, both without hope of repairing. Or like the fall of Lucifer the first Apostate without offer, or hope of offer of grace any more for ever; or like the fall of Judas, who falling headlong burst asunder in the midst, 2and all his bowels gushed out.
This fall is like that of Jerichos walls,1 they fell down flat with a curse annexed, or as Babylons walls, with a Vengeance, both without hope of repairing. Or like the fall of Lucifer the first Apostate without offer, or hope of offer of grace any more for ever; or like the fall of Judas, who falling headlong burst asunder in the midst, 2and all his bowels gushed out.
There is also another kind of fall of a mixed or middle nature,1 and to which side of the two, Godly or Reprobate, I should cast it is not so easy to determine. A reiterated fall into some foul act or curse of sin, and herein I must proceed as warily as the Priest of old in a doubtful case of Leprosy, whether to pronounce Clean or Unclean,